Drop a PDF or Notion export. 2anki pulls out the terms, medications, and procedures.
1. Drop your file
Notion export, PDF, Word, Markdown, or a Quizlet export.
2. 2anki builds your deck
Usually a few seconds. Bigger files take a minute.
3. Open it in Anki
Double-click the .apkg file. Your cards are ready to study.
Diagrams
Anatomy and clinical diagrams embedded in your slides come across as images inside the card.
Image occlusion cards
Image occlusion is a native Anki feature — after import, use the Anki image occlusion editor to mask labels on anatomy diagrams.
Bold and italic text
Bolded drug names, italicised terms, and clinical emphasis carry through so the formatting you made guides your review.
Nested lists
Nested bullet hierarchies become nested cards, preserving the structure of nursing procedures and care plan steps.
Only if the scan has a text layer from OCR. PDFs exported directly from a slide application always have a text layer. If you scanned printed handouts, run them through an OCR tool first — macOS Preview and Adobe Acrobat both do this.
Image occlusion is a native Anki feature built into the card editor. 2anki brings your diagrams across as images; you then open the resulting deck in Anki and use Anki's image occlusion tool to add label masks to anatomy illustrations.
Yes. Upload one module or one topic at a time rather than the whole semester in one file. Smaller decks are easier to schedule, easier to review, and Anki handles 500-card decks more smoothly than 5,000-card ones.
Anki uses spaced repetition to schedule each card based on your recall — cards you find harder come back sooner. Quizlet offers flash-card practice but schedules differently. Many nursing programs and study groups coordinate around Anki decks, so 2anki keeps your cards in the same ecosystem.